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Posit Software, PBC · Academic writing & publishing

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Open-source scientific publishing system from Posit that renders Markdown with executable Python, R, Julia or Observable code to HTML, PDF, Word, slides, websites and books via Pandoc

MITFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

R

R Foundation / R Core Team · Programming languages & runtimes

Language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, with the CRAN package archive and a strong base in academic statistics and econometrics

GPL-2.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

R Markdown

Posit Software, PBC · Academic writing & publishing

R package that turns Markdown documents with embedded R (and Python or SQL) chunks into HTML, PDF, Word, slides, books and dashboards through knitr and Pandoc

MITFreeOpen sourceLocalMaintenanceBroken

RePEc

RePEc volunteers · Research dissemination

Volunteer-run decentralized bibliographic database of economics research, fed by institutional archives and served through IDEAS, EconPapers, the Author Service, CitEc, NEP and MPRA

MixedFreeNov 2, 2026

RStudio IDE

Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing

Posit's open-source integrated development environment for R, with console, editor, plots, environment panes, Quarto/R Markdown authoring and Python via reticulate

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

SEC EDGAR

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · SEC/EDGAR & corporate filings

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The SEC's free public filing system: company and full-text search, bulk index and feed archives, and data.sec.gov JSON APIs for submissions and XBRL financial facts, subject to a fair-access rate policy

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

Semantic Scholar

Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · Literature discovery & review

Free AI-assisted literature search from Ai2 with an Academic Graph API, recommendations and downloadable datasets of papers, authors and citations

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

SSRN

Elsevier · Research dissemination

Elsevier-owned preprint and working-paper platform with discipline networks, author pages, download rankings and institutional research paper series, free to post and read

ProprietaryFreeEnterpriseNov 2, 2026

Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada (Government of Canada) · Open & public data

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Canada's national statistical agency publishing census, economic and social data tables with open licensing and programmatic access via Web Data Service

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

statsmodels

statsmodels developers (NumFOCUS) · Econometrics & causal inference

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Python library for estimating statistical and econometric models with R-style formulas, rich result summaries and tests: OLS, GLM, discrete choice, ARIMA, state space, VAR and more

BSD-3-ClauseFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

SymPy

SymPy Development Team · Mathematical & statistical computing

Pure-Python computer algebra system for symbolic algebra, calculus, equation solving, matrices, physics modules, code generation and LaTeX output

BSD-3-ClauseFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

TeX Live

TeX Users Group (TUG) · LaTeX & typesetting

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The comprehensive free TeX distribution for Linux, macOS and Windows, released yearly with the tlmgr package manager and all major engines, packages and fonts

Open sourceFreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

TeXstudio

TeXstudio contributors · LaTeX & typesetting

Open-source desktop LaTeX editor with integrated PDF viewer, autocompletion, wizards, spell checking and a structure view for Windows, macOS and Linux

GPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

Typst

Typst GmbH · LaTeX & typesetting

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Markup-based typesetting system with an Apache-2.0 compiler written in Rust and a collaborative web app, positioned as a faster, simpler alternative to LaTeX

Apache-2.0FreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

World Bank Open Data

World Bank Group · Open & public data

Free access to World Bank development indicators by country and year through a web portal, bulk downloads and a public REST API

ProprietaryFreeBroken

Zenodo

CERN (with OpenAIRE) · Research dissemination

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Free general-purpose research repository operated by CERN that assigns DOIs to datasets, software, papers and other outputs, with a REST API, OAI-PMH, GitHub release archiving and CC0 metadata

Open sourceFreeNov 2, 2026

Zotero

Corporation for Digital Scholarship · Citation management

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Free, open-source reference manager with browser connectors, word-processor plugins, a PDF reader, group libraries and optional paid file storage

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

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